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Understanding MCS: A Therapist's Guide to Multiple
Chemical Sensitivity and Environmental Illness,
Roselle P. O'Brien, LMHC
Newly Updated!--Understanding MCS is an accessible
introduction to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity,
Environmental Illness, and mast cell related disorders
that is aligned with the DSM-5. Written primarily for
therapists--social workers, mental health counselors, expressive and
creative arts therapists, psychologists--it is intended to inform all
clinicians and healthcare professionals on how to recognize environmental
illnesses and the signs and symptoms with which clients may present.
Understanding MCS offers DSM-5 assessments and coding for these hard to
recognize and often difficult to manage chronic diseases as well as
providing client-focused supports, guidelines for reasonable
accommodations, insights regarding treatment planning, and practical
suggestions for ways to adapt counseling practices in order to best
serve individuals living with these chronic illnesses.
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Understanding MCS: An Agency/Provider Guide to Multiple
Chemical Sensitivity & Environmental Illness,
Roselle P. O'Brien, LMHC
This much needed book provides insights as well as tools
and strategies to educate agency administrators,
management, and staff regarding the specific needs of
clients with these environmental Illnesses (EIs) as well
as what should be implemented regarding initial home safety, client
safety, and needs assessments, training for staff and direct care
providers, ongoing supervision and training, scheduling considerations,
and more. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a real, physiological
environmental illness affecting growing numbers of people including
veterans returning home and needing care. Understanding MCS: An
Agency/Provider Guide can be used to inform all healthcare professionals
as they plan the care and services they will provide for individuals
suffering from the very serious chronic illnesses of MCS, mastocytosis,
MCAS, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and other mast cell
activation spectrum related disorders.
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Eco-Health & the Continuum of Care, Roselle P. O'Brien
Agencies and organizations around the world are
recognizing ecosystem awareness and ecosystem
understanding as key in preventative medicine and
healthcare, and imperative in the management and
treatment of diseases. Eco-Health & the Continuum of
Care examines eco-health, the face of our changing healthcare
system, and the very real and difficult needs of individuals living with
chronic environmental illnesses. Eco-Health & the Continuum of Care
provides a solid foundation in the basics of our healthcare system
structure, medical models, the doctor-patient relationship within
these models, and the impact of human behaviors on health, disease,
and the ecosystems with which we co-exist and depend upon to survive.
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